Abstract
THE title of the work of which the present volume is but the first division is thus dealt with in the preface: “Between the region of phenomena [undefined] comprised in the science of acoustics, and the experiences of music considered as phenomena, there appears a great gulf, which invites attempts to bridge.” “The gulf has two sides, and can be approached either by working forward from the material aspect of acoustics, or backward from the experiential aspects of music. However, in the present investigation it is the purely scientific side that is emphatically insisted upon. Hence the name ‘Hyperacoustics’ may be proposed, as indicative not only of something beyond, but also of a presumption requiring justification as to the existence and rationality of something beyond the known facts of acoustics.”
Hyperacoustics.
By J. L. Dunk. Division i., Simultaneous Tonality. Pp. vi + 311. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1916.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Hyperacoustics . Nature 98, 306 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098306a0
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